Spout for oil cans



(ModeL) Y J. KAYE.

SPOUT FOR OIL CANS. No. 270,810. Patented Jan; 16,1883.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS;

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN KAYE, OF OARDINGTON, PENNSY LVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WOLFENDEN, SHORE & 00., OF SAME PLAGE.

SPOUT FOR OIL-CANS.

- SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 270,810, dated January 16, 1883.

Application filed October 14, i882, tModel.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN KAYE, of (landington, in the county of Delaware and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Spouts for Oil-Cans, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a spout for oil-cans which shall be light, strong, and durable, and in which lighter metal may be employed for the spout than in the ordinary construction; and to these ends my invention consists of the peculiar construction of the metal-spout for oil-cans, as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to-be had to the accompanying drawings, lorming part of this specification, in which Figure l is an elevation of an oil-can provided with my new and improved spout, a part of the spout being broken away to better show its construction; and Fig. 2 is a transverse section ofthe spout in the line .00 m of Fig. 1.

A represents the body of an oil can, which may be of anyapproved form and construction, and B represents my new and improved spout applied to the can in the ordinary manner.

The body a. of the spout B is formed in the ordinary way of tin or other sheet metal, which is wound closely upon the outside ot'the spout a. The wire at the small end of the spout is held to the spout by soldering. -At the lower or large end of the spout the wire is held in place by passing the end e of the wire through a small perforation, It, made through the spout-body and bending or clinching the end of the wire inside the spout, as shown in Fig. 2. Constructed in this manner, the body of the spout may be made 0t much lighter material than that of which ordinary spouts are made, and, as a whole, the spout may be made much lighterthan ordinary spouts, as the wire formsashield orre-enforcingjacketforthespout and protects the body of the spout from indentation and other injury. formed in the wirejacket of the spout will also prevent the oil-can from slipping through the The corrugations I hand of the operator if the can is seized by the spout.

The spout may be made of any desired size, 0 and it may be made straight or curved, as desired.

I am aware that water and gas'pipes have heretofore been formed by first forming a tube by bending around sheet metal and overlapping and uniting the edges by rivets or otherwise, and then winding round the sheet-metal tube spirally wires or strips or hands of metal and uniting the wires or strips of metal to the cylinder in a bath of molten metal and employing a flux to cause adhesion, the pipe being revolved in the bath until a sufficient coating has been deposited on or become affixed to it, and I therefore lay no claim to such pipes, my 6 invention beingconfined to the construction of spouts for oil-cans, as pointed out in the claim.

I am also aware that astrengthening-jacket made of a. coil of wire wound tightly on the outer surface of a hot-water boiler has heretofore been en1ployed, and that one end of a wire has been secured to acan by passingitthrough coincident holes in the flange ot'the cover and the body of the can, and bending the inner end of the wire into a hook to insure its hold upon the body of the can, and I therefore lay no claim to such inventions.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters 8:: Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, a spout for oil-cans formed of the tapering sheetmetal body a, provided near its lower end with a perforation, h, said body a being wound closely on its outside to near its top by a wire, b, soldered to the body at its upper end and secured to the body at its lower end by passing through the perforation h and clinched to the inner face of thebody, as set forth.

JOHN KAYE.

\Vitnesses JAMES BOTTOMLY, JOHN WoLFENnEN.

tube by placing the partially-finished pipe or 60' 

